Why'd you have to go falling off the wagon and getting all flaky on me? Once upon a time, you were an incredible computer repair guy. You were friendly, competent, and I did lots of business with you. You built me a couple of fantastic systems ( Read more... )

Strike 1 (before the recent set of strikes): I needed a new fan for my desktop. I took it to a local computer shop to show them, so I would get the right size fan. They sold me a wrong size fan anyway. I should've taken the hint, because a couple of weeks after that ( Read more... )

Happy 19th birthday (more or less). They told me at the shelter you were six months old, and that was in February, so sometime around now you should be turning 19 ( Read more... )

I haven't listened to Weird Al's last couple of CD's because I don't recognize the parodies.

(And it takes an effort to use the word "CD" instead of "album".)

I got an email from somebody I know, who was gleeful about the U.S.S. New York. In a nutshell, it's a military warship that incorporates 24 tons of scrap from the World Trade Center ( Read more... )

There are plenty of places to hike around here. This is, in fact, probably one of the best places in the entire United States to find places to go for a hike. Many of them even allow you to bring your dog with you ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, apostate_96!

Hope you have fun on your birthday. :)

Finding this on the same day the local IKEA opened its doors was amusing.

I haven't visited it yet. I'm going to wait a week or two or maybe even a couple of months before going. I hear it's fabulous, and relatively cheap, and the website looks cool, but reading this story, and this one, about the crowds and lines during the grand opening, has ( Read more... )

I didn't realize it was Iams forcing the Menu Foods recall, and NOT the government ( Read more... )

Why pay to go to MIT, when you can take the classes for free?

Ok, yeah, you don't get a degree.

But you'll get the knowledge.

Personally, I prefer the knowledge. I LOVE to learn new things.

I notice one of the areas has to do with Civil Engineering. Hooray - I would like to learn more about this (I work with civil engineers), but I don't ( Read more... )